Community Tasting Notes 111

• Condrieu82 Likes this wine: 94 points

  April 26, 2024 - Dark ruby in the glass. Nose shows some alcohol but also lots of cassis and bramble, with a touch of aromatic wood. Medium+ acidity, then cassis, blueberries, cherries, some plums - fruit is very refined, expressive, and precise. Cocoa, some pencil shavings, grippy tannins even after 2 hours decant, and long, lingering, cherry-filled finish.
  This is an intense, young, very enjoyable wine already. Still quite primary, but elements are integrating very well. Decant a couple of hours and you are good to go. Very Margaux in its refined elegance. 94 now, but likely 96+ in 5-6 years.

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• Scapolite Likes this wine: 95 points

  April 19, 2024 - Deep ruby in colour, purple, opaque in the center, with very slight bricking on the rim, but overall still very wide and translucent. Decent amount of legs as well.
  
  On the nose, very floral right off the gate. Quite black fruit forward as well with blackberries, cassis, blueberries, slight greenness and herbs, along with wet earth, forest floor, tobacco, mocha, and espresso. Wow, such elegance.
  
  Medium bodied on the palate with earthy and leathery notes upfront, with the fruits lingering around in the mid palate. Leather, black tea, wet earth, forest floor, along with the black fruits and cassis. This is quite structured with powerful and grippy tannins, but the acidity keeps all the elements in check and makes me keep going for more. There is minimal heat despite the somewhat high alcohol. Finish is quite exception with a savoury note towards the end.
  
  This is very delicious and elegant, and is drinking quite nicely despite its young age. Can't wait to revisit this in a few years with a bit more bottle age.

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• calypse Likes this wine: 92 points

  March 19, 2024 - Seductive, floral nose. Fine and delicate on the palate. Beautifully complex and multilayered. Slight hint of alcohol on the finish, of which the wine has 14.5% vol. The latter prevents a higher rating. 92-

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• dhwesley wrote: 88 points

  March 17, 2024 - No sediment. Inky, opaque red with tinges of purple and the barest hint of orange at the rim. Nose moderately open - forest floor, mushroom, anise, mint. Acid and tannin predominate on the palate. Over the next few hours it evolved somewhat starting to evidence the slightest hints of port notes. A solid offering. No rush to drink this up, I'm curious where it will be in a few years.

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• Robbie O Likes this wine: 96 points

  February 28, 2024 - All of the prior tasting notes are accurate. This wine started off with a very closed nose, quite differently than what I was expecting - especially from a very warm, ripe vintage in 2010. It is not a modern, plush fruit-first 2010 Margaux like perhaps a Brane-Cantenac or Issan. But the wine is in perfect balance right now and doesn’t feel like it’s going anywhere for a very long time. Garnet colour with red brick at the rims, very well integrated tannins and lovely pure fruit which is not in your face. This is a very sophisticated Margaux for the vintage. Would recommend a 90min to 2 hour slow-ox and bringing up just a touch from cellar temperature. I don’t like to decant wines unless very old and laiden with sediment or else very young and needing violent and quick oxidation. The French very rarely decent, especially with burgundy, as they feel that this “breaks” the wine and I agree with them here. This “super second” growth could very easily pass in blind tasting for Château Margaux or other of the 2010 first growth offerings. It’s lovely, will remain so for another 20-30 years, and makes me very grateful that I have a half case of 2015 waiting in my cellar.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2010
• Type Red
• Producer Château Rauzan-Ségla
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Médoc
• Appellation Margaux
• UPC Codes 3277034728508, 3412950994136, 3412951016820, 3412951094132, 3412951516825, 3419466182620, 3419466244861, 3448821308900, 3550871203569, 3550871212363, 370027463127, 607921025763, 6167734133078, 887017211045

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• Pending Delivery 335 (5%)
• In Cellars 5,001 (78%)
• Consumed 1,113 (17%)

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